 Good evening. I took all the order of the August board meeting of the Central Reminding Career Center School Board. It is six o'clock on Monday, August 14th. Do we have any guests on the screen? No. Review the board agreements and norms. We have that sheet. So hopefully everybody's had the opportunity to look that over over time. We like them. We like them. Any revisions to the agenda or board comments? None and no yes. There's no public comments or correspondence and nothing came in. All right. So under the consent agenda, the approval of the minutes from 6-12-23, do I have a motion? I'll move. So moved. I move that we accept. Did somebody accept us there? Okay, anyway. I move that we accept the minutes. Any discussion on the minutes from 6-12-23? Okay. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All right. And it's approved. Student appointees to the board. We don't have an appointee now. Are we going to have an appointee this year? Abby will be working with student leadership again this year. She's our school counseling coordinator. And once they get up and run in, she'll ask for students who are interested in participating. And our former... Graduated. She's actually working up at the mall. You can get your hair done. I know that soon she's going to have a barber pole. The goal is to have a barber shop. The draft board handbook that goes together as far as... Skip to our board goals. Oh, I'm sorry. The board goal, the program quality committee looked over the board goals that we did in June. And we thought we would pass along each one to the subsequent committee. And so we're asking that the long-term planning goals go to the finance and facilities committee, the educational quality goals to the program quality committee, and the community engagement goal goes to the steering committee to work further on each of those and to develop smart goals, develop some actions, some benchmarks and things like that. So, are there any comments, ideas, questions on that? Yeah, so to be able to review them at their next meeting, it can be a draft form that we have them for our next meeting. Good idea. Yeah, that makes sense. So we can agree to put on our agenda, our committee agenda for the next committee meeting to work on the board goal. Okay. And would you be September 11th? September in the full board meeting in the adoptive in October? Or you were... Yeah, but yeah, I've been adopted by October for sure. But if they're good, we could adopt them in September, right? But I like the idea of polishing or editing or taking constructive feedback. Yeah, so for September 11th. Wait, we're September 4th now because we're the first... No, we're the second. Oh, we used to be the first. Right. We're the 11th, September 11th. Okay. Board of board, a handbook draft. Are we ready for that? Yeah. In your, in your packets, those included. A quite complete sound box, which would be really nice to have published and also give the new board members and older board members. And a couple of things that there were questions on perhaps. Did anybody have comments or questions on the board? Guy. Yeah, I'd sent along a couple of suggestions to Jodi. And just wondering out loud. At our, at our facility meeting and asked a question about whether we still have advisory board committee members for each program and the answer was yes. And I'm wondering if we should not list those people and list the fact that we do. My reasoning for that is actually a couple. One is. It's a great way to recognize people. And two is I think it broadens our constituency and probably can broaden their, you know, potential communication with, with folks. But I also don't want to burden the staff with, you know, more stuff to do. So, because my, my guess is you're probably talking quite a few people, but I don't know that. I think it's a great idea. I'm sorry. Oh, it's also printed somewhere where we have where we've seen the names of all the organizations that work with our students. You know, and who the members of those committees are. Why can't we just include that in this handbook. I think it's a good idea. It does bring in a broader community and lets people know that our communication is more broad based than they might have thought. So a question just for us to think at it more broadly so that the handbook is a handbook for the board to work as a board right. So the, so I agree with Guy that the committees are really important. So we should have them listed in our website, which I think they are and make sure that they're in a prominent space. And then we could if it's okay with everybody we could have a link that we were talking about have a link to the advisory boards if a board member is curious or wants to contact somebody or whatever you know who those are but it's just that link because the handbook is for us to be able to access the tip of our hands information without having to go to the website as opposed to taking the whole pacing them and having three pages to add to the handbook. Right. And the handbook is the way that it has put it together. It works great online, right so that you have all the links and mentioned maybe that I was hoping to add some musculoskeletalization right links to the government pieces and the job of the board. Yeah, yeah, I think that's good. Do we have to go. Yeah, we have to make a motion for that. No, this is just great. So how do we make a book that works best for us. Yeah. Yeah, I'd be happy. That's a great suggestion. I would be fine with that. I think it gives, you know, people an opportunity to, you know, to take a broader view. Appreciate the comments. And your other question has been about the mission. And that when looking for mission before I'd forgotten to look at our governance document that was created by the government committee, I think you are a part of. And that was the mission for the district in that government report. So I brought that into this. Okay. All right. Appreciate that. Yeah. Good question. Just a comment and suggestion in the handbook, which, by the way, would have been so helpful for me when I started. So I think this is great. Talks about the description of the board, right? And then it gets into the description of the committees. So I urge the program in finance to kind of come up with your description and membership kind of it's like the charter that we're working on for facilities that we could just take those charters and put them right in this handbook. And then they'd be there for going forward. Excellent. Great idea. So, could, could I add to that that we include that as another item to send along to our committees to put on their agendas for the next, either the next board meeting or the next committee meeting and the one after that. We're starting to load. And you have other work to do, I'm sure. And if Jodi could send us what she has that describes what the committees are. Would people be okay with saying by our October meeting we have those descriptions done and finalized. Yeah. Okay, great. And anything else on the, on the board handbook. Moving on. Okay. Next item. The new required policies. We. We just want to reaffirm these are, these are the policies that, that need to be in place before the start of the school year. And so we wanted to, I wanted to call for a motion to reaffirm the two new required policies that three to fire an emergency preparedness girls and that for the access control and visitor management. Yeah, safety. So do I hear a motion. Second. No second. I got, I got a quick question. And I'm assuming, I'm assuming, I know what the answer is, but particularly for spalling high school students because I'm assuming that spalling high school has the same. You know, they're adopting the same policies. In terms of potentially confusing kids, I'm going to assume that spalling and the career center are cooperating or coordinating the efforts around the whatever it is you need to do around these policies. Yeah, so the options based response, we already had, spalling already had that the Alice protocols. We use the same one and we work with Lou Gather to make sure that we're in step with them. So we've scheduled them obviously sometimes we get, we all get a surprise fire drill or something like that. That's definitely the case. I reached out to Chris Tennessee before we adopted these to make sure that we're adopting the same language and he told me they were planning to adopt them as is from the state just as all schools were supposed to. So hopefully Juliana that happened. They are exactly the same. And they're, we were advised not to change anything. Because, because it's in statute, those, those actual words are in statute so we can't change them. Yeah. So we do work with the spalling administration to make sure that we're carrying it out the same way. You can make it tougher, but you can't reduce. Yeah, you've adopted it. Yes. Yeah. And the other one was F4. Yeah. We did books. Yeah. Well, the facilities, the access control is belongs to very good. Yes, facilities. So we have a motion and a second. Any other discussion. All those in favor of reaffirming these two policies. Hi. Hi. All those opposed. All right. I've been reaffirmed. Thank you very much. And we're now on to the recommended policies first reading. And I believe we're going to take these as a slate rather than one at a time. So I'm going to ask for a motion. For the first reading. And do I hear a motion to approve the first reading. The motion to accept the first reading. Apologies a 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, B 20, B 21 and B 22. All second second. Discussion on any of these policies. The only change should be obvious. It was in a 20 and it was that change to our board meetings being the second Monday of the month. So the first. Just a point of clarification. Do we accept these every year? We review them. We should put them on a schedule for a review. And a lot of that will be in conjunction with changes that the BSBA makes to their recommended and required policy models. So this is we're making sure that we are good with them because initially we just adopted. All various. And now we just want to make sure that this board still. And then we can, we can put them on more of a schedule. Okay, so we have a motion and a second to accept these recommended policy first reading. Any more discussion. Okay, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Three day. We have the second reading next. Okay, perfect. All right. 2.7 committee reports. Let's start with finance. We had an informal conversation just to make sure that we are up to date. Few highlights. You know, we changed our system for taking care of both our billing. You know, continue to Michelle continues to be super happy with it. Hopefully every course that we're getting. More information for us and we can ask for specifics for her. She still has quite a bit of hours left. She can use for training and all that transition seems to be quite well and aligned with what we would need to do. We're about to be audited. That's our regular audit. Right. So she will use that would really help. The next year that audit will be easier. That was the biggest highlight from, from the finance. We're hoping to get everybody. And we do know that there are going to be fundings in the audit. We did go for several months without a bookkeeping accounts. Payable person. So Michelle was doing a lot of. That and, and her own job. And it's supposed to be spread out between different people. So we do have a person in that role now. Kelly moved from an admin assistant to there. And so we, we put the system in place to make sure that we're doing things the way that we need to, but it's going to come out in the audit though. We had one person doing multiple pieces. Of our finances when it should have been separated out more. There's questions and then you, you are all getting. All of our, the pain. It comes back. Yeah. Every school. Yeah. Everybody's getting those emails. And then we, I put a print that you've had at our board. Really. Guy. So, so Jody, why would. I mean, the audit is not necessarily about how many people we have, but whether we're doing a good job with finances or not. And if we're doing a good job. What difference to make if we had somebody missing? Just for safety and protection. It's. If the person, um, the only person is taking care of every piece of it. Then certainly money could go missing, right? Um, obviously the audit would show that if there was something that happened that way. Okay. So, but it's just one component of they're going to check our system. So, not just how much money we started with where it went and what we had left, but also what systems did we have in place? And did they need their guidelines for federal requirements that we have? And if not, we're going to be able to say what we're doing about them, but they might have also some additional recommendations. Okay. Thank you for that. Yeah. And it's a guide. The biggest thing about the audit is that any, any, there'll be a couple of findings for any find that they have, have already been taken care of. Which is. Right. They're on top of it. And then one thing I forgot to mention was that we did talk about the budget process and that line at that timeline update on the timeline, because you're going to be budgeting pretty soon again. Yeah. So we'll get, we'll get an idea of the timeline. Yeah. You will get an idea of the timeline at our next. Hopefully we'll have. Finance meeting. And we, you will have an idea. And just pretty similar last year. We changed a few things that are our last meeting. For the summer. Yeah. Just to update when we send the postcard. Thank you. The facilities for men. Yeah, we did. We also didn't have a formal meeting. I mean, we, we had some conversation. We didn't take any action on anything. We're just going to regroup again in September. We chatted a little about the. The handbook. We just, uh, I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. The handbook. We just talked about. We didn't get any more volunteers from our first, uh, Front porch forum kind of request. So, um, I'll send that back out again. I kind of letting things settle down with, you know, And then the charter, we talked about our, our committee charter and we are going to have a draft when I hope ready for our next meeting so we can talk about it and then give it to the board when we're ready. Terry, would you mind? No, you did it. Okay. Terry, would you mind when you do put something together for your front porch farm that you send it to us because I would be happy to do that for my player one as well and hopefully we can do the very one. Okay, thank you. Great. Anything else on facilities? Program quality. Okay, we, Jodi was at an amazing SREB conference in Orlando and reported out on some just really exciting endeavors that are going on around the country in Oklahoma, particularly, they have tech centers at work that start outreach to students when they're in the second grade, and it moves up and during that time they can take one of they can explore one of those areas in the sixth grade. They're aware of what the scope of all the career opportunities are in the seventh grade it's part of the curriculum. There's curriculum support for what they do in the eighth grade they can shadow three programs. There's an exploratory in the 10th grade as they begin to hone in and follow their, their goals, their dreams, their hopes. Jodi also reported this was really fascinating on beta technologies out of Burlington is working with Platsburg, the career and tech center in Platsburg, and they're doing a certain kind of paint on planes. It's going to become the industry standard. And they are the, there are four represent four students are doing this. And those are the only four in the whole darn country that are doing it. And it's going to become the industry standard for the whole country. So is there a way for us to become a part of that or what an explorer further, but it's, you know, higher wages here they come. So that's pretty exciting. And then of course we follow that was a look at. We talked about curriculum and instruction review and Jodi got this great book that hasn't by Steve Cottonberg. No, he's the in service person, but Karen has supported it and she was really active in the degrees of knowledge framework to begin with and I don't remember the name of the person who wrote the book. Eric Francis and Francis, and we talked about how that promising instruction there's also from the SREB they focus on pips, which is promising instructional practices. And so how do we merge that way of thinking so that there's going to be an in service at the beginning of the year and then we talked about wouldn't it be great if they saw the video that the that was done with the solar and the electric working together and identifying how they thought and work together to say we do do that. But how do we do it in a broader way so that we're much more mindful across our curriculum. And when we talk about going full time, it'll become really important then to for our partner schools to see that we really are looking at those elements of higher order thinking. And then we went to what we've asked everyone to do is to by October have a final version of what they think their career, what their goals are in for their committees, and what's actionable and so forth. And that's it. That's it. Right. Anything else. Any questions on that. Guy. Yeah, I want to throw a bone out to the program committee that had somebody approach me about starting a program that would deal with elevators. And the reason being a couple. No, let's say I was trying to do it because that they're going to move. Turn your volume down. Try again. Is that better? Yeah. Sorry about that. And it was not good. Okay, the, you know, the premise is a couple of things. One is, right now I believe, and I think I've known this for a while. There's like one elevator. Person, all New England, number one. And number two is with the recent floods and perhaps what the future is going to look like, which is perhaps not having stuff on the first floor. I think it's going to require, you know, having more elevators installed. So just food. I thought it was an interesting concept. And I just want to throw that out there. You mean Mr. Otis is still alive. He's moved up. He's thinking the elevator. I just wanted to share that. Interesting. I gotta imagine that elevator people would fulfill those requirements of the state of high pay, high wage and need and all of that. Good question. Right. I know that our building trades. Program because to me three does. Some of the steel framing, they have built like elevator shafts before in building trades, but not the actual elevator components. They like electrical students as well. We, my son's kind of being recruited. We're trying to be recruited by an elevator company. It's really not really what he wants to do, but yes, they had, and they have apprenticeship programs, I believe, through their company and they also pay very, very well. Yeah, so yes. Yeah. That's great. Excellent. Moving up. Sorry. Okay, the negotiations committee and we are, if you look at the agenda, we are going to go into executive session later. But is there anything from the negotiations. Committee now. No. We finish. No. No. Executive. Yeah. Okay. 2.8. The superintendent's report. So I shared that we're going to the honor happened to be at the very town. Select board meeting one of the same nights that I was there with Carl. Looking into an ambulance that we had proposed to purchase they had to that there were being replaced and so we were going to purchase try to purchase one. And they instead opted to work with us and donate that ambulance to us in exchange for training time with our materials and our space. So they will, we've got a contract with them and the ambulance should be in our parking lot in the next few weeks. So we will be able to simulate with that ambulance now. And if there's any change in the legislation and the future that allows 17 year olds to work on an ambulance, then we could support emergency services locally with our own ambulance. So that's. That's great. Yeah. They just approved it at their last life board meeting. That was our first one when we were there. And it might be helpful also to note that Carl is the interim director of the very town. Ams right now because the director did after shortly after that meeting that we were all at. And the original contract was drafted. He took a job somewhere else and then they were searching for someone. So Carl is doing that. He promised me that he will be back in the classroom at the start of the year. He is not leaving us. He's certainly been busy. What else. I think guide has a question. Go ahead. Yeah, just a quick follow up to that. I'm assuming and I, you know, I'm sure I know, I think I know the answer to this, but it, the agreement doesn't violate any of our agreements that we signed with the school. Well, I don't know. I mean, I, I, you know, like having an ambulance parked in the yard or having, you know, the town use the facilities for, you know, for training. That's all that. Thank you. Thank you. I thought I just wanted to ask. Yeah, we're lucky to have finally found someone to replace Kelly as admin assistant because most of you know, our admin assistant Kelly Bella bow moved into the accounts table payroll position. She's been doing a great job of actually doing both jobs most of the summer. I think it was previous to her admin assistant came in and did it support for two weeks, but on next Monday, our new admin assistant Liza havaland will be starting. We're really excited to have a full staff downstairs. You already know that Christina and I attended the SREB conference. I've included a draft of the program of studies in the past that was sent out created and sent out in January, which for me didn't make sense when we were already done with our first round of admissions so our students start applying on the same day as we have open house in November, which is the Thursday before the Thanksgiving break. And so we wanted to make sure that this year the program of studies went out in advance of that so it should be ready in September to distribute across your sending region and then students will be able to work through that process of visiting the school if they haven't applying once the November date comes around and moving forward. So they have access to all that information in advance of applications. Is that only an electronic copy or is there a print copy of that? Right now it's only electronic. There isn't, we do a print copy and we deliver it to our sending schools. Just last year there was that on the council of conversations about wanting something tangible because they missed it. Yeah. Which they shouldn't have. And we got both the Perkins grant approved and our time grant continued to cover for half of the program salary and benefits of our instructor for design of fabrication. Great. Yeah, a couple of a couple of dumb questions. Just curiosity questions. So I was at Lotus Lake camp on my grandkids and I think this is the second time I've noticed a CBCC van park there. So is that a van that you have donated or is that a collaborative thing or So when the first summer that I was here as director. Yes, this would be this. No. This would be the third. Oh, yeah. Last summer, or last spring, 2022 spring, Ben Allen reached out about our bus exactly the bus not a van. It's a multifunctional school bus. So it's not the yellow school bus. And asked if they could rent it because the place that they normally rented from had double their cost. So it went from $4,000 to $8,000. Oh my God. And they weren't guaranteed that they could have it that summer. And I forget who we had to work through at the time but we made sure that they had the insurance that would cover it. And it has really low mileage. It's only used it was only used by our natural resources program. So we struck a deal with them and they rented it from us last summer and she asked if they could do it again and we don't use it in the summer and make sense to get it used. So we did it again. So each year they paid us $5,000 for the summer. Great. So the other question I have Jodi will be in finances but I might as well deal with it now. It's not a question of the finances but I noticed some fairly intricate pieces of equipment were purchased. Can you speak to those because I think they're, they're important for us to know from a program perspective. I'm thinking of culinary and woodworking program. Woodworking machinery anything related to that is like we got a CNC machine for the design and fabrication program. You may remember guy that when we originally open that program, our expectation was that with a partnership with Norwich and they were supposed to provide all the equipment. And they have not done so in fact they've, they've opened the program. So the requirements have access to dual enrollment for two courses in the full year. So six credits, but they did not contribute any equipment. And so we got additional Perkins funds that we use to purchase the equipment for that program. So anything related to woodworking CNC that sort of stuff tends to be what's going into the design and fabrication program because they're not supposed to just be focused on sculpting of different materials but also some design 3D, 2D design and some, some CNC work so that kids from that program could go into global granite industry. For example, they could also go into some advanced manufacturing gives them multiple options. I'm trying to look at what the culinary was. I'm thinking that there was probably our cutlery always has to get sharpened because they use it, but I believe they had a piece of equipment that was set for replacement. Or fixing that was probably in here. Yeah, you know, thank you thank you for addressing that I think it's the reason I asked that is like, you know, I kind of want to be on record of like saying, you know, we're trying to keep up with stuff and trying to provide the, you know, the best and the, you know, to the brightest. So, thank you. Yeah. So you can see the transition from systems, the, the different methods of reporting out so there's a check register reports from the old system, and then the new system which is a little bit clearer and currently shorter. Did you have more than you wanted to talk about the program or studies or just your plan for. I just wanted to share the plan for it and the reason that you're seeing it now and then if there were questions or comments from the board, I'm happy to hear that. Does anybody have any questions about the actual program. Yeah. So if I came to your office one day, at some point, I could put down the nice tiny copy of this after the first week of September probably the first week of September. Yeah. Or I can bring it to the September 11th. It's ready. That's agree. Sorry. Sorry, my question. And maybe you addressed this before I got here. I noticed Orca media is on my site tonight. And I'm assuming they're taping the meeting, which is great, because I was going to ask the question tonight whether any of the local public access stations have gotten access to our meetings. And so, and maybe they've been on before and I haven't noticed it. So, am I just waking up or they reached out last week and asked if they could record our meeting and I said, absolutely. And unfortunately they didn't have a staff member who could be here with a camera tonight, but they're recording from the Google meet, which is great. And hopefully they'll be joining us for all of our future board meetings. That's great. I really appreciate that. Now, do they, because our coverage area also includes CB TV, I believe, so do they, are they going to share that with them? Or are they talking or do I believe it's going to be shown on the TV, but I can't fully answer that because I'm not sure I understand it. Okay, we might might want to check into that because I think. Yeah, a different coverage area, but I really appreciate the fact that. Thank you. Yeah. I have a question I just want to know what we're going to be doing to ensure that all students are reading at the level that's expected in order for them to comprehend the content. In the different graduation, you know, to meet from our efficiency based on. You're getting that question from the program. Yeah, I'm just looking at each one like we're looking at graduation and if I'm looking at. Reading and calling it baking and culinary arts. There's a level of proficiency to be able to read and comprehend it at 10 to 12, but it changes, you know, based on on the level. So, I'm just wondering how we kept the prize to that. So we this is shared with our sending schools and we do a lot of work with counselors to try to help them understand where a student needs to be and with us case managers. At all our sending schools to try to help them understand where students need to be to be successful because our applications process is blind and we don't. We don't want to know who's on a plan who's not. And as you know, because you've been on this board for a while, we have about 40% of our students are on plans which is much higher than any of our sending schools. And so we try to make sure that everyone understands and that they're setting the kids up for success, and they know how to support them. I can speak best probably for you 32 because I used to work there and because I'm, I know the case manager there really well who is assigned to our students. She starts working with students in the middle school because it's right there. And with their teachers in setting this is what they need to be able to do to access this program if that's really their area of interest. And making sure that we build that into any of the programming they might have. We can't guarantee that they're at that level. We can provide some accommodations for students to make sure that we're supporting them as much as possible. It's part of why we have a literacy intervention as well. It also seems to me that part of our, we look at what Oklahoma's doing, for example, and they're starting with second grade. What are we doing, you know, where's that work and how are they reporting out that their reading levels are going up because they want to ensure that by the time that student. I mean, I know how hard it is to make that happen. I just didn't know what the ongoing level of communication was. I'm just curious on that same note, so like 11-3 on a lot of technology. Is that like a national reading level standard, like a Lexile score turned into a number or is that? It's just a grade level. It's not a Lexile. It's just a grade level and so we've agreed as a state of Vermont or whatever, what an 11th grade. Well, there's a lot of variability there because of Lexiling and the state is saying they want everyone to have a Lexile number, but this flies in the face of a Lexile number. And Lexile gets messy. Sorry, I digress. I really got us off track. So we're good on the program of studies accounts payable for July. We started looking at it. Do you have anything else to add to that? No, you will get emails from these as soon as they so every two weeks you should get an email from Kelly Beliveau that shows that and I believe she's emailing everyone. So you'll be up to date on what's happening through our new system. This is really easy for her to send that email that way. And if the board chooses not to have it done that way, we can figure that out. But right now that's, that's the plan just to keep you posted on where's the money going. Okay. What are we buying? We're getting ready so we're buying lots of stuff to get ready for students to come back. Which is on what day? The 31st. Maybe it's the 30th. It's the 30th. Teachers come back on the 23rd. New teachers are here in the 22nd. Teachers are back on the 23rd. We have on the 24th, we have our third round interviews for admissions. So there's still more students that we could potentially take in if a program has opportunities. And then the first day is Wednesday, which I think is 30th actually. Wednesday is the 30th. And that's true for all of our setting schools. We all align our calendars. We have the same starting date. Excellent. And it begins. Any, any questions or comments on the accounts payable before we move on. Okay. So we're now going to go into executive session negotiations. I'd like to ask for a motion. I'll move that the board enter into executive session for the purpose of connections as preventive general public knowledge who clearly claim the board and the association involved in substantial disadvantage. I have a second. A second. Discussion. No. All those in favor of going into executive session. All right. All right, we'll go into executive session. We're going to go to another space. That's, do you have it? You have the motion. I do. First by you and then by Diana. So we are all set. Thank you.